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Service area — Interim Management

We take responsibility until the organisation carries again.

When key positions are vacant or change needs pace, we fill the role — as interim COO, divisional, programme or transformation lead. Available at short notice, clearly mandated, with a defined end.

Schema einer Mandatskurve: Take-Over, Stabilisierung und Hand-Over über die Mandatszeit.
How a mandate runs.A mandate starts with the take-over, stabilises the situation and ends in an orderly hand-over. The curve shows where performance dips first — and from when it carries again.

Scope of work

  • Interim COO, plant and divisional management on time
  • Programme and project management in critical initiatives
  • Transformation lead for change under time pressure
  • Bridging vacant key positions until a permanent appointment
  • Fast stabilisation of delivery capability, quality and cost
  • Building the management routine: target picture, priorities, metrics, escalation
  • Enabling managers and teams during live operations
  • Mandate clarity — role, brief, decision paths, duration
  • Structured handover to the line with documented standards

We at Röhrig Industrie Consulting take operational responsibility on time — inside the line, with a clear brief and defined decision-making authority. The first weeks build the picture: where the company is losing time, margin and delivery reliability, and which decisions are sitting undone. Out of that comes a short list of priorities that still holds when daily business pushes against it — and on top of it a management routine with a few dependable metrics, clear owners and escalation that works.

A mandate is only successful once it runs without us. So we work with the existing managers from the first day, document standards, secure knowledge and prepare the handover rather than improvising it. The frame is written down beforehand: role, area of responsibility, targets, duration and decision paths. Interim mandates are a service on time on a mandate basis, not a contract for work with a guaranteed outcome; remuneration is on a day-rate basis.

Typical mandates

Interim COO / Plant Management
Full operational responsibility for production, supply chain and maintenance, when the position is vacant or needs relieving at short notice.
Divisional management on time
Leading a unit — manufacturing, engineering, project delivery — with a target picture, priorities and a management routine that holds.
Programme management
Taking over a critical industrial or relocation programme: deadlines, risks, resources, escalation and the reporting line to the board.
Transformation lead
Steering a change initiative stuck at concept stage — until structures, processes and ways of working carry in daily operations.

See the Interim COO / Transformation Lead engagement →

Engagement model

Reporting cadence
weekly steering group · monthly update to the board
Steering
Cash and KPI steering
Typical duration
3–12 months

Responsibility on time. Impact that lasts